We will do this, but on the back end, it is a non-trivial change and that is the reason for the delay. Right now comments are plain text so to implement this we’ll need to implement a change to all comments, converting them to HTML.

Funny thing is, before our latest upgrade, this was working fine. We could put TICK:12345 and it would change it to a hyperlink. It would also let us embed our own html, which is/was wonderfully helpful.